The Washington Times, as they say, nails it: “Budget deal shows high cost of bipartisanship. Few things produce bipartisanship more than spending other people’s money.” The newspaper continues: This week’s deal to add $320 billion to the deficit over the next 20 months and set the stage for $1.8 trillion more in deficits over the […]
Mon.-Tues. (Feb. 5-6, 2018) Weak dollar, trade protectionism the two big things that threaten the improving US economy
Steve Forbes, editor of Forbes magazine and a Republican candidate for President in 1996, writes that “Two big things threaten the improving US economy: a weak dollar and trade protectionism.” Regarding the latter, he continues, It’s one thing to update trade agreements such as Nafta, quite another to blow them up or try to dictate […]
President’s SOTU provided good summary of past year’s accomplishments
President Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) address last night provided a good summary of his administration’s many accomplishments in his first year of office. A full transcript of the speech is here. The speech was well received by the viewing public. though not by Congressional Democrats. That said, some problems appeared in the outline of […]
Important news: President Trump is considering rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The most important news of the day is that President Trump said he is considering rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11), the eleven nations that just a few days ago announced that they had secured agreement to go ahead with their trade pact. Of the US press, only the Wall Street Journal covered this major development. […]
Immigration fight: US to be Founders’ constitutional republic or Democrats’ Brave New World welfare state?
In a previous Founders Broadsheet we outlined the contours of what we consider a good US immigration policy would look like. We said that among the qualifications that should be demanded of permanent residents eligible to become citizens would be a “cultural background likely to adapt well to life in the US and its laws” […]
